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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not sure I see the incentive here. Follow my logic. A prize is valuable because it's something you couldn't afford yourself. If I offered $1 prize people probably wouldn't be too psyched about it because a dollar is something they co
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by SamAtt 17y ago
That's what I meant :)
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Personally I’d like to see NASA morph into an agency that supports the private sector somewhat in the vein of the FCC. Because there’s another problem out there that no one’s really talking about and that’s the fact that private investors
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by SamAtt 17y ago
He's just using the Apple event to launch into the same "new media" nonsense that goes around the blogosphere. There's no doubt word of mouth plays a part but it always has. Just because people are talking on twitter rather than gathering
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The question was "Will this teach kids how to use computers" and my answer was "it's an alternative interface so not necessarily" So I don't see how your comment is relevant. Sure there are situations where an alternative interface is a go
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not sure that's true, at least not with the OLPC. The OLPC doesn't resemble modern interfaces (see screenshot here: http://morgancollett.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/olpc-taskvi... ) so I don't know how much it prepares kids for using
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by SamAtt 17y ago
At some point in your career I think it's nice to sit down with Assembly just so you understand what's going on down there. But I don't think a programmer should do that until they have a rock solid understanding of modern day programming.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
You missed his point. He's saying your study doesn't speak to the question. While his anecdotal evidence might not be accurate but it at least addresses the question at hand.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I don't know what University you went to but having known people who "partied their way through the Ivy league" (by their own admission) I feel pretty confident that people can get through any 4 year university without working all that hard
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Yes, if the people making the malware were complete idiots and ran down people's batteries it would be noticeable. But, as on the PC, I'm sure they could find a way to make it just subtle enough to not be noticed. Estimates place the numb
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Where did I say that Apple's app store process was identical to Google's? Or even close? The original article quoted a post endorsing the idea of no approval process while saying the person writing that article was right. To me that's an
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not sure this would make a difference. Even the largest companies generally only have a couple hundred external lines. (internal office phone systems don't give each number it's own dedicated external line for those who don't know) So
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by SamAtt 17y ago
What the author misses is phones present dangers and costs that PCs don't. So his philosophy of "we've gotten by in the past and our PCs never had a review process" doesn't hold up. In fact, it ignores the fact that a large percentage of t
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Have you tried Powershell? I haven't found much I can't do with it (though I admittedly have limited Linux experience)
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think this is great for Marvel. Even with their movie success the comic part of the business hasn’t managed to get back into stores in any meaningful way. When I was a kid comics were sold every place you found magazines. Now not so mu
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm not sure this should be taken much more seriously. This is a survey of MyYearbook.com users which right there makes it more biased towards those who would use a service like Twitter. Beyond that we have no real idea of how the numbers
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I assume you're talking about this story: http://www.naturalnews.com/021290.html If so I'd have to dispute it. I do think the U.S. imprisons too many people for drug charges but I also think China and Russia have a lot of people imprison
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by SamAtt 17y ago
This has already been covered: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=788409
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by SamAtt 17y ago
He says the connection closes instantly which to me sounds like a security measure for blocked IPs. I assume the block isn't at the OS level so he'd still be able to get into port 80 but once he did it would try to connect to the HN softwa
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I could be wrong but I suspect most small companies in the United States are funded by business loans not VCs. If you have decent credit and real faith in your idea it makes sense not to give the valuable shares away.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
We use Zoho and while I can't speak to the author's intended meaning I can tell you the two factors that keep us with them. 1. Zoho's APIs are more mature. Especially the Remote API which allows you to use the Zoho tools but keep the data
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by SamAtt 17y ago
If Macs 'needed' antivirus software it would be necessary on all versions. Just because they've decided to proactively include it doesn't mean they need it.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Only if the original author believes in complete inaction. I didn't take the author's point to be that life's unfair but that's cool because it's ok that way. I took the author's point to be life's unfair and it should be changed.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Or...you could just learn to use Powerpoint well. Does anyone think Steve Jobs would be more effective if he stood up there with a yellow notepad? The idea that "talking to the screen" is inherent in using Powerpoint just seems a little si
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by SamAtt 17y ago
All through this article I was thinking along your same lines. I mean, this guy's a bit of a moron. Who in their right mind changes their identity but then reunites with their family who are all still going by their real names? Especiall
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Just so someone says it I hope everyone remembers Microsoft had a monopoly with Windows. Apple doesn't with the iPhone. The most optimistic estimate puts the number of iPhones sold by the end of 2009 at 45 million. Compare that to an est
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I don’t know. Seems fishy. They won’t tell the name of the company or give details on the types of applications. Then they claim what seems like unbelievable numbers. If 16% of my apps were on Rails and they were only generating .5% of my
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by SamAtt 17y ago
When I look at the other suggestions there seems to be this idea that your Mom and Dad are suddenly going to start smoking pot if it's legal. I doubt that. So the ideas that mimic Coke or Beer branding don't do much for me. If it were me
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by SamAtt 17y ago
(Note: The above comment was at '1' when I made this reply. So at least 4 people simply don't care that the info given above is a flat out lie as is shown by the actual report that I link to below) Just pointing out what I did above. * The
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I actually hunted down the report ( http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates... ) and no where does the officer claim the 911 callers said "two black men" in the call. Again, as far as the conversation taking place its W

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